"Researchers have argued for decades that while hominins in Africa and western Europe demonstrated significant technological ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Little Foot is a nearly complete ancient skeleton found in the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa that could change how ...

A roughly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer has been discovered in Boxgrove, England. This find ...

So when did our human ancestors start making tools? Well, the earliest artifacts that we know of date back more than 3 million years, but early finds had been scattered and inconsistent until new ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

In 1998, researchers discovered one of the most complete known human ancestral fossils in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves. Almost two decades later, Ronald Clarke, the paleoanthropologist who had ...

The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs—a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our ancestors perform this atypical ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...